This letter is especially poignant because it is
January and Annie writes that her mother, who has recently removed from Hawaii
to San Francisco “has had a fire ever since she has been here.” This isn’t just because her mother was chilly
after the move from warm Hawaii. Her
mother must have been ill, because she was dead by October of the same year.

Generation 1: Owen Jones, born about 1735 in Wales,
died 28 February 1798 in Aberstwyth, Wales, married Anne Unknown. Two children, Owen and Anne Jones, born 17
Feb 1769 in Boston, Massachusetts and
died 18 February 1791 in Aberstwyth. My
6x great grandparents.

Generation 2: Owen Jones, born about 1768 in Wales,
died 22 Apri 1850 in Dorchester, Massachusetts; married on 11 May 1793 at the 2nd
Baptist Church, Boston to Elizabeth Lambert.
She was born about 1775 in Boston, died 6 February 1834 in Boston. My 5x great grandparents. Eight children.

Generation 3.
Ann Marie Jones, born about 1811, died on 15 August 1832 in Boston;
married on 7 October 1829 in Boston to Robert William Holt. He was born about 1792 in Birmingham,
Warwickshire, England and died 6 July 1862 in
Honolulu, Hawaii. My 4x great
uncle and aunt. They had two daughters.

Generation 4:
Elizabeth M. Holt, born about 1830 in Boston, died 27 October 1865 in
Piedmont, California; married on 25 December 1854 at Washington Place, in Honolulu
to William Arnold Aldrich, born 27 March 1824 at Westmoreland, New Hampshire,
died 3 March 1892. Elizabeth is my first
cousin 5 generations removed. Four children.

Generation 5:
Anne B. Aldrich, born about 1856 in Hawaii; married Willard T. Barton.
Two children born in San Francisco.
Annie is the author of the letter, and my 2nd cousin 4
generations removed.

1 comment:

How sweet a letter! So sorry to hear about this young girl's mother, however. I remember writing detailed letters after Christmas to my greatgrandmother who lived kitty-corner all the way across the continent from me! ...telling her what I Christmas present I got from her (that my mom bought with GrGrmo's $$), what I was doing at school, or for fun, etc. Fun memories.

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